Daily Current Affairs for 30th August 2017 ( English)
1. Mentor
India campaign was launched by NITI Aayog Chairman Amitabh
Kant .The aim of this campaign is to mentoring the students from std 6th to
12th regarding professional education through “900
Atal tinkering labs “.
2. Aug
23- International Day for the Remembrance of Slave Trade and its abolition.
3. International
Military Music Festival is started from Aug 24 to next 10
days is held at Moscow, Russia. On behalf of India, Indian Navy’s
“ Tri -services” is participating in it.
4. Rajiv
Bansal was taken over the charge as New Managing Director of
” Air India “.
5. The
book “ I Do What I Do” was authored by Raghuram
Rajan ( Former RBI Governor )
6. South
China was badly hit by Hato Cyclone and caused severe
destruction.
7. India
and Nepal signed a MoU to build a
bridge across River Mechi.
8. The
cabinet committee on economic affairs had given their nod to change
the name of SAMPADA ( Scheme for Agro- Marine Processing and Development of
Agro –Processing clusters) into Pradhan Mantri Kisan Sampada Yojana ( PMKSY)
9. UN
General Assembly’s new Secretary General Miroslav Lajkac, going to
assume office from 12th Sep, 2017 visited PM Modi on 28th August
in New Delhi.
10. Transgender
Nasriya from Ramnathapuram , Tamil Nadu became the second
one in Police department to hold the position of constable grade
-2 after Prithika Yashini who is the first one in the
department of police to hold the position of SI in Salem district.
11. Puducherry’s Karuvadi
kuppam Mango farm’s name is changed to “ Bharathi Kuil Thoppu
“ by the Government of Pondicherry.
12. America’s Texas
Province was strongly struck by cyclone
Harvey and caused huge damages.
13. Palani Govt Girls hr.
Sec School in the district of Dindugal bagged the National
Award under Swachch Bharat “ Clean India Campaign “ for the cleanest
school at National Level.
14. NITI Aayog have
shown its nod to conduct the Lok Sabha and Assembly
elections at the same time by 2024.
15. National Squash
Championship ( Women’s Singles ) held at Greater Noida was bagged by
Joshna Chinnappa. This was her 15th title. Men’s Single was
bagged by Sourav Goshal.This was his 12th title.
16. The Union Cabinet has apprised Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) signed between India and Brazil in
October 2016 for cooperation in fields of Zebu Cattle Genomics and
Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) and also aims to strengthen
existing friendly relations between both countries and promote development of
Genomics and ARTs in Cattle through joint activities.
17. The Union Cabinet has given its approval to the proposal
of Union Finance Ministry to promulgate an ordinance to suitably amend
the Goods and Services Tax ( Compensation to Staes) Act 2017
to hike the maximum rate of compensation cess levied from
the current cap of 15% to 20%. The ordinance will amend Schedule of
Section 8 of the GST (Compensation to a State) Act, 2017.
18. The Delhi Police has launched YUVA – a
skill development programme under Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) which
aims to connect with youth by upgrading their skill as per their competencies.
It will help youths to get gainful employment under PMKVY.
19. The Union Government (Department of Investment and Public
Asset Management) has approved a 100% disinvestment through strategic
sale along with transfer of management control of Central Electronics
Ltd. (CEL).
20. The Union Cabinet approved Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) to set up US $40 million India-Israel Industrial R&D and
Technological Innovation Fund (I4F). The MoU was signed in July, 2017 during
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel.
21. The premier government think tank National Institution for
Transforming India (NITI) Aayog has suggested establishment of
a judicial performance index (JPI) to check delay in
finalisation of cases in lower judiciary.
22. Aug 30- International Day of the victims of
enforced disappearances observed
globally.
23. The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has decided to end the process of
interviews for selection of candidate’s non-gazetted jobs of the state
government.
24. Sri Lankan head for cricket team selection
Sanath Jayasurya has resigned
from his post along with other members following defeat against India in both
test and ODI series.
25. Bihar government released Rs 1935 Cr to undertake flood relief operations in flood
hit areas.
26. The Allahabad High Court has expressed strong dissatisfaction over possible
felling of trees for the construction of Ramdev’s Food court in
Noida,UP
27.The DIPP announced the initiation of new
Industrial Policy that will be aimed at making India a manufacturing
hub through “ Make in India”
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